The stars flock to the Governors Ball after the main event, where the winners can get their statues engraved and the losers can drown their sorrows in whisky foam cocktails served in gold eggs.

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and his team will serve 1,500 guests 1,300 farmed oysters, 10kg of farm-raised caviar and 300 Maine lobsters, as well as 6,500 Oscar-shaped flatbreads and 2,400 bottles of Piper Heidsieck champagne.

He said: “We are going to top last year with delicious dishes, traditional ones that Adele and John Travolta love like the macaroni and cheese with truffles and chicken pot pie and then new additions like Alaskan king crab Chinese-style, lobster and vegetarian dishes like white grape almond gazpacho, there will be something for everyone.”

Puck has been cooking for the Governors Ball for more than 20 years and said he now gets special requests from famous faces who want their favourite dishes prepared on the big night.

He said: “I saw Barbra Streisand a few months ago and she said ‘I don’t care what you cook as long as you make my chicken pot pie’ and a lot of members of the Academy say the same thing and so we make that every year.”